Summer Time Gaming Memories!

[steven]

What are some of yours? Post 'em here!

Well, here's my BIG summer gaming memory, plus a cheap shill of a recently published book by HG101's very own, Rob Strangman (AKA Dire51). It includes story contributions from me and Sotenga, plus many more.



Growing up, summer and gaming went together like PB & J, or Batman and Robin. There was something simple and magical about it, especially when you added in the key ingredients of a best friend and some highly alluring, mythical Super Famicom imports. This memoir is a tribute to the best summer of my childhood that happened 20 years ago. It was a summer of discovery, a summer of magic... THE SUMMER OF IMPORTS.



Lee's stage is SEARED into my retina. It SCREAMS June 1994. This bucolic stages captures that time perfectly!


Thanks to Rob Strangman, this story (and 4 other stories of mine) appear in his recently released print book MEMOIRS OF A VIRTUAL CAVEMAN. Weighing in at a hefty 472 megs, I mean, pages, it recounts the defining gaming moments of 21 gamers growing up from the '70s to '90s. There are also exclusive interviews Rob did with such industry insiders as Yuzo Koshiro, Martin Alessi, David Crane, EGM's Sushi-X, and much more that make their way into the book. Did I mention it also includes PICTURES? It's available now on Lulu.com for purchase; I highly recommend it for some excellent retro gaming reads. But, don't just take my word for it -- you can visit the website and read a bunch of FREE sample chapters RIGHT NOW (including one of Sotenga's). We thank you for your support of the book we worked so hard and passionately on.


472 pages of retro gaming nostalgic goodness, it includes pictures and industry insider interviews

[Weasel]

I am pretty sure that, the first time I ever beat Earthbound, it was with a massive sunburn on my back.

[Dingo]

I have a few, but the one that sticks out the most with me involves the Resident Evil series. My older brother has been a Resident Evil fan ever since playing the original. I remember our mom took us and a few of my brother's friends to buy the game one night and I ended up staying up late to watch him play. The game terrified me, and it would be a few years before I worked up the nerve to play through one myself, but I loved watching my brother explore the mansion and solve the various puzzles throughout. We ended up doing this for the next two RE games as well; he would play through them while I stayed up and watched. It was a great time even if I had a few nightmares as a result.

[Deleted]

Lots of summer gaming memories. I clearly recall beating Shadowrun on the SNES during the summer of 1993. I also played a lot of TMNT II: The Arcade Game on the NES during the summer of 1991. Let's see, what else. I played a lot of Wizardry V on the SNES during the summer of 1997. Finally beat it after listening to a lot of the self-titled album by 311 and Muddy Banks From the Wishkah by Nirvana.

Earthbound came out in the summer of 1995, as did Chrono Trigger. I listened to a lot of Green Day's Dookie album and Weezer's blue album while playing and eventually beating both of those.

This is kind of fun.

[vetus]

I have so many fond memories of summer time gaming that I should open a blog dedicated to them. The most recent ones were last year when I first played The Legend of Zelda Oracle of Ages and Seasons. Just like Link's Awakeking, Oracle of Ages&Times have this tropical feeling that makes them the perfect games to play at summer holidays. Not to mention that they are great games that aged so well. At the same summer I also played and finished two great Nintendo rpgs which are included to my Top10 favourite rpg francises: Mario&Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story and Mother 3.

Jul 25, 2014 18:37:18 GMT -5 steven said:

Growing up, summer and gaming went together like PB & J, or Batman and Robin. There was something simple and magical about it...

I have exactly the same feeling.

[nightdreamer]

New Kids on the Block had a bunch of hits
Chinese food makes me geek
And I think it's fly when games come by for the summer, for the summer...

My allowance was really low back in my childhood, so I could barely get 1-2 game cartridges a year. I got my SNES around summertime, and my first game was Donkey Kong Country and The Lion King, so those were the games that me and my brother beat a few hundred times. DKC in particular fired up my imagination that I even created a board game based on it, including a 'boss battle' against Mario. Too bad I lost it many years ago.